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J. H. BAR'TH LAMP FOR DECORATING AND ILLUMINATING PURPOSES.

No. 373,958. .Patented Nov. 29,1881

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN HS BARTH, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

LAMP FOR DECORATING AND ILLUMINATI NG PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,958, dated November 29; 1887.

Application filed April .21, 1887.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. EARTH, of

Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lamps for Decorating and Illuminating Purposes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention, while applicable to various decorative and illuminating purposes, is more particularly designed totake the place of candles on Ohristmas-treesin churches, schools,or dwellings; and the invention consists in a candle-like lamp provided with special means for its suspension and attachment and with a peculiarly-constructed burner adapted to carry a globe-shade, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal View, in perspective, of a lamp embodying the invention with its globe-shade in position. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same in a plane at right angles to Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a top or plan View of the lamp with the globe removed. w

A indicates the body of the lamp of cylindrical contour, and which may be a simple glass vial having an exterior screw-thread, b, on its upper end or neck, or which may be made of any other suitable material.

Fitting or screwing onto the neck portion 1; of the body is a mainly conical shaped burner or burner-cap, B, which may be of metal, and is adapted to hold or receive a wick, 0, down through it. The base portion of said burner is cylindrical, to fit the neck I) of the body, and is provided with a lower ring or rim, 0, while the upper portion of the burner is tubular,to form aguide and'support for the wick; but the burner, taken as a whole, is what may be termeda conical one, which shape or construction when united with the cylindrical body A gives to the lamp 21 Furthermore, the conical-shaped burner has a series of exterior tapering ribs or ridges, d (1, down it toprovide for the easy slipping to its place and secure hold when in position of a globe or partly globular shade, D, which may be of any de- Serial No. 235,634. No model.)

sired color. The spaces between these ribs serve to give a free supply of air to the exposed portion of the wick within the shade for the purpose of keeping up combustion.

Pivoted to the ring or rim 0 of the burner B is a hook, G, to which may be attached a wire or other flexible connection, S, for hanging and securing the lamp as required, the hook G providingfor hanging the lamp almost instantaneously on any of the twigs or branches of a Ohristmas-tree,for instance, while the wire S will serve, by a single twist or so about the twig or branch,to secure the lamp and give perfect safety even when the lamp is hung upon the extreme end of a branch of the tree. This removes a great difficulty heretofore experienced in using candles on Ghristmas-trees,and bymaking the globes or shades of the several lamps in use at a time of different colors a greatly-improved effect will be produced.

Lamps constructed as described may be used to advantage for various decorative and illuminating purposes. They will be found especially advantageous, however, forilluminating and decorating Christmas-trees, as they will be very much safer than candles, cheaper to use, cleaner, give a steadier and brighter light, have a much better effect, will burn longer, be actual ornaments in themselves, do away with the usual weighty balances-such as are attached to candles on trees to keep them upright and which weigh down the branches. They also can be more easily lighted than candles and in other respects have the advantage over candles for the purpose herein named,

but in none more importantly so thanin the safety which attaches to them as compared with candles, that expose the tree to taking fire and that have been the cause of so many lamentable accidents.

To avoid offensive odor from the oil burnt in the lamps the wicks may be steeped in cider vinegar, and to give a small neat light the wicks should be cut close to the tubes of the lamps or their burners.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the glass vial A, having integral screw-threads at its open end, of the conical burner 13, made in a single piece and formed with the central wick-passage and having a suspension-wire pivotally connected l and the suspension-hook G, having two arms at its ends to the burner at opposite sides and pivotally connected to opposite sides of the 10 formed with the hookGbetween its ends, subneck, substantially as set forth. stantially as set forth.

JOHN H. BARTH. 2. As a new article of mannfaetn re, the comeal lamp-burner B, formed with the tubular Vitnesses:

\Vi0k-110lding passage, the external integral ISAAC H. G. ROYsE,

longitudinal ribs, d, the screw-threaded neck I), RUTH E. LEWIS. 

